Category: Kids

Legend: Nola (6) Violet (4) Roman (14 months) Ryan (32; tasked with single-handedly watching all the above for a week) ••• My wife Charity left us today. She headed down to Dallas, TX to attend the DIVE Creative worship workshop for a week, hosted by a couple of her heros. Well whoopdeedoo for her, in the mean time I’m shackled…

Hero Time There are times when my wife is cooking dinner that we will witness a moment of intense realization, usually in the form of shrieking from behind an open refrigerator door. The whole house will discover that we are critically deficient in an important meal ingredient. “No! We’re out of butter!” Or “No! We’re out of chicken stock!”—still don’t…

I will stand at the top of the stairs and scream to my children that dinner is ready, a half-dozen times. Each eliciting zero response. They are either engrossed in a movie, or playing “the silent game” championships, or have only been a figment of my imagination for the last six years. My foundation-splitting war cries reverberate throughout the house, pleading with…

It was fun making this film with our lovely little actors. I use “fun” in the, we-shouldn’t-have-kept-them-up-past-the-emotional-stability-that-comes-with-bedtime-and-make-them-repeat-lines-they’re-not-familiar-with-while-forgetting-that-they-are-only-children-and-not-trained-actors-because-we’re-creating-art-for-crying-out-loud kind of way. Hope you like it.